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UlizaLlama is a 7B Parameters language model that builds upon the foundation of Jacaranda/kiswallama-pretrained. Jacaranda/kiswallama-pretrained is a large language model continually-pretrained with 321,530,045 swahili tokens and a customized tokenizer with a swahili vocabulary of 20,000 tokens to extend the capabilities of Meta/Llama2. It offers significant improvements in both encoding and decoding for Swahili text, surpassing the Swahili performance of Meta/Llama2. Moreover, Jacaranda/kiswallama-pretrained excels in providing accurate next-word completions in Swahili, a capability which Meta/Llama2 falls short of. UlizaLlama is optimized for downstream tasks, notably those demanding…